"Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness." David Augsnurger

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." Paul Boese

~My Favorite Forgiveness Quote~
"Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature." Epictetus

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears." Glenn Clark

"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge." Scott Adams

"Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions." Gerald G. Jampolsky

"Whoever approaches me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it." Mishkat Al-massabaih

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness." Honore de Balzac

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note-torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one." Henry Ward Beecher

"If you can't forgive and forget, pick one." Robert Brault

Forgive and Forget?

I believe being able to forgive and forget is the key to happiness. What do you think?

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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." Mark Twain

"Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast." Marlene Dietrich

"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." Grace Hopper

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." Lewis B. Smedes

"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting." William Arthur Ward

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." William Blake

"Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge." Isaac Friedmann

"Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself." Harriet Nelson

"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass." George Herbert

"There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site." Sydney Harris

"What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven." Mignon McLaughlin

"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him." Olin Miller

"Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule." Lewis B. Smedes

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." Josh Billings

"Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation." Roberto Assagioli

"One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget." Franklin P. Jones

"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury." E.H. Chapin